Photojournalist Shot Dead in Notoriously Violent Mexican Border City

Agents from the Chihuahua Prosecutor's Office check the area where photojournalist Ismael Villagomez was murdered in Ciudad Juarez, state of Chihuahua, Mexico, on Nov 16, 2023. Herika Martinez/AFP via Getty Images

A Mexican photojournalist was fatally shot in the driver’s seat of his car while working a second job in the notoriously violent Mexican border city of Ciudad Juárez on Nov. 16, prosecutors said.

The body of Ismael Villagómez was found at around 1:30 a.m. in the vehicle, identified as a gray Hyundai Elantra, in the Fronteriza Alta neighborhood in western Juárez, according to police.